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Best Starts in partnership with Start Early is hosting small group conversations to understand community members experience with the Parenting Interactions with Children: Checklist of Observations Linked to Outcomes...
Relationships are essential to our social and emotional wellbeing. This is especially true for babies and very young children as they learn, explore, and form close relationships. Best Starts Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health (IECMH)...
The application deadline is May 3, 2025 at 11:59 pm Pacific. Apply now! Best Starts for Kids Youth and Family Homelessness Prevention Initiative is hiring a Homelessness Prevention Contract Monitor (Project/Program Manager II) to assist in...
Editors note: This position was reposted April 25 with a new classification. We apologize that applicants who have already applied will need to reapply. We have updated this blog post to reflect the new link, and timeline. Best Starts is...
The Best Starts for Kids Child Care Subsidy waitlist is now open! Families can fill out this 5-minute form to be considered for child care funding available later this year. Join the waitlist here! Starting later in 2025, some families on the...
The applications deadline will be April 20, 2025 at 11:59 pm Pacific. Apply now! Quality Improvement Lead Educator Consultant We’re hiring two positions for our Family Ways team: Project/Program Manager III - Quality Improvement Lead who will...
Children, young people, and families thrive when they have access to high-quality, equitable, and culturally relevant services and programs, and Best Starts partners with many small, culturally specific organizations to support those services....
About 30 people, including staff from Best Starts, community organizations, and families who access Best Starts supports, gathered mid-March to celebrate the send-off of a King County Metro Bus fully wrapped in a Best Starts design. The...
The application deadline is April 14, 2025 at 11:59 pm Pacific. Apply now! We’re hiring a Prenatal to Five Team Lead (Project/Program Manager IV)! This role provides strategic leadership and oversight of programs that reach children and...
The King County Children and Youth Advisory Board (CYAB) is seeking individuals interested in serving on the CYAB for a three-year term beginning late spring 2025. The CYAB serves as the oversight and advisory body for the Best Starts for...
We offer equity-centered workshops for King County early childhood providers.
This dashboard shows the impact of Best Starts funding across its eight investment areas: Child Care, Investing Early, Sustain the Gain, Youth and Family Homelessness Prevention Initiative, Communities of Opportunity, Capital Projects, Technical Assistance and Capacity Building, and Data and Evaluation.